. The State’s Unending Vigil: Owen’s and Woolf’s Unknown Warrior
. The State’s Unending Vigil: Owen’s and Woolf’s Unknown Warrior
This chapter compares Wilfred Owen’s war poetry, Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room, and officially sponsored war art as responses to the British state’s monopoly over the war dead. It analyzes the rhetorical structure and power of the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, as an object of Owen’s and Woolf’s political critique. The chapter elaborates on Foucault’s concept of biopolitics in terms of thanatopolitics, with a focus on the state’s use of the war dead to fashion its subjects.
Keywords: war, thanatopolitics state, Owen, Woolf, Foucault
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